Sheikh Dr. Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Ibrahim Al Al-Shiekh, Speaker of the Shura Council of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, called on the world community to underscore the importance of serious cooperation in their endeavor to spread the values of dialogue, tolerance, moderation and building relations of cooperation among the world's peoples and countries, citing the importance of the initiative of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud for dialogue among followers of cultures, religions an civilizations and noted the role of the initiative in propagating the principle of tolerance, cooperation and acceptance of opposite opinion. This came in a speech delivered by Al Al-Shiekh before the 126 General Assembly of the International Parliamentary Union (IPU), which kicked off in the Ugandan capital of Kampala today, in the presence of the Speaker of the IPU Abdulwahed Al-Radhi, Speaker of Uganda's Parliament Rebeka Kadaja, who is also Chairman of the current IPU session, and a group of speakers of parliaments member states in the IPU, United Nations representatives and Saudi ambassador to Uganda Dr. Jamal Abdulaziz Rafa. Al Al-Shiekh called on the world community to create healthy climates for disseminating the values of dialogue, tolerance and moderation, citing the call of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques which he launched during the International Dialogue conference in November 12, 2008 at the UN headquarters in New York. He also drew the attention to the call of the monarch when he demanded the world to announce that difference in viewpoints should not lead to dispute or struggle and that the disasters in man history did not originate from religious reasons but because of extremism applied by some followers of different religions or political doctrines or parties, noting that the establishment of Vienna-based King Abdullah Center for International Dialogue for followers of religions and cultures is yet another evidence for the concept of dialogue and its role in promulgating the principles of tolerance and cooperation, the acceptance of the other view point and respect of the different human cultures and their privacy. --More
